I have a number of the old rules advertised in WD: Angriff, Pas deCharge, The Wargamer's Handbook, Wargamer's Guide to the American Revolution et. al. Are these the ones you are interested in? I don't think any of them were focused on using the McCoy standard unit. My email is : movingworld-at-aol.com.

You are correct aegiscg47. Each vehicle, for example, represented 5 real ones. I was aa early subsciber to Wargamers Digest and have the complete run. I remember how, in the end, I became disappointed when to fill space they resorted to republishing articles from various military magazines and even repeating their battle problems. I believe, by then, Mr McCoy had health problems. Still, along with the book/rules Battle! by Charles Grant and Angriff probably the most influential in molding my early gaming outlook and experiences.

Never saw the rules, only the magazine. I understood they were to be the greatest rules since sliced bread and to this day I would like to at least read through them. Glad I didn't build those three tables they played on!

I'd say that overstates the case. I recall reading quite a few battle problems in WD that were solved by a fairly effective combined-arms operation without resorting to deux-ex-machina. And I missed the one where a flank march was the solution.

Wow, talk about raising a thread from the dead. IIRC, many of his battle plan solutions had forces coming on from roads at the edge of the table. Not all, mind you, but some. That, of course, ignored the possibility that other forces might be present off board, or it requires a defender to guard all the table/roads in some fashion.